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The National Maritime Museum will reopen later this year with an exhibition featuring 500 years of royal portraits

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Following guidance received from the UK Government to minimise social contact, Royal Museums Greenwich has closed to visitors and will re-open no earlier than 1 May 2020. Unfortunately, this means that their major exhibition Tudors to Windsors has been postponed for the foreseeable future, writes Holly O’Mahony... www.weekender.co.uk

A new exhibition is due to open later this year at the National Maritime Museum featuring portraits of the kings and queens who have shaped British history over the past 500 years. Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits will bring together works from the National Portrait Gallery and Royal Museums Greenwich as well as private collections, and will feature over 150 portraits spanning five royal dynasties, from Henry VII to Elizabeth II, writes Holy O’Mahony…

Among the artists whose portraits

are to go on show are court painters Sir Peter Lely and Sir Godfrey Kneller, photographers Cecil Beaton and Annie Leibovitz, and pop artist Andy Warhol, whose work is also currently enjoying a major retrospective at Tate Modern.

“Tudors to Windsors is a celebration of over 500 years of royal portraiture,” says Kris Martin, curator of the exhibition.

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Four Generations’ (King George V; Queen Victoria; King Edward VII; Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)

“Through more than 100 works – paintings, sculpture, miniatures, photographs, prints, medals and postage stamps – the exhibition explores the development and dissemination of the royal image in Britain as statements of wealth, power, continuity and tradition, under the influence of the monarch’s personality and wider historical change.”

So, whose faces will you be able to see? “Beginning with Henry VII, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians, Victorians and Windsors, ending with our current queen,” reveals Kris.

Portraits to pore over include a beguiling painting of Anne Boleyn dating back to the 16th century; the ‘Ditchley portrait’ of Elizabeth I by Marcus Gheeraerts; Thomas Hawker’s 1680 depiction of Charles II;

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Queen Victoria by Sir George Hayter; and Bryan Organ’s 1980 study of a casual-looking Prince Charles.

“Every monarch is represented,” says Kris, whose personal highlights of the upcoming exhibition include one of the earliest portraits of Henry VII by an unknown Ditch artist, dating back to around 1505. “It perfectly demonstrates the beginning of an English portrait tradition that captures true likeness,” he says.

“We also have some iconic portraits that have become the defining image of particular kings and queens, including Holbein’s Henry VIII, and Allan Ramsay’s portraits of George III and his consort Queen Charlotte. There are some wonderful photographic portraits of Her Majesty the Queen by Dorothy Wilding (1952), Cecil Beaton (1953), Annie Leibovitz (2007) and Thomas Struth (2011).”

To make the exhibition well-rounded,

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“The exhibition explores the development and dissemination of the royal image in Britain as statements of wealth, power, continuity and tradition, under the influence of the monarch’s personality and wider historical change.”

Kris was keen for it to feature more than just paintings. “I wanted to expand the remit of the exhibition to consider the more everyday dissemination of the royal image,” he says, something he’s planning to achieve through displaying coins, medals, prints and postage stamps alongside the artworks.

Articles of clothing worn by the monarchs will feature too. “We are lucky to have secured the loan of a child’s suit of armour that was made by the Royal Armouries workshop here in Greenwich, probably for Edward VI, which is complemented in the ‘Victorians’ section of the exhibition by a little sailor suit from our own collection made for the five-year-old future Edward VII to wear on the Royal Yacht,” he says.

In the days before television,

social media, and photography in newspapers and magazines, official portraits were as close as many people got to knowing what their monarch looked like. As a result, the monarchy “have long exploited their ability to stage manage their image in order to provide a statement of power, grandeur, wealth and majesty – or domesticity, motherhood or philanthropy,” points out Kris. But despite technological advances, portraiture continues to play an important role in shaping our opinions and understanding of the monarch.

“I hope that visitors to the exhibition will see how royal portraits have always been important in communicating a particular understanding of the monarch, influenced by political context, personality, fashion and gender,” says

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Kris. “I hope they will also see how portraits reflect the shift in power, role and perception of the British monarch; how we moved from rule to reign, from absolute monarchy to constitutional figurehead, and from guarded formality, power and grandeur to informality, domesticity and approachability,” he adds. “I also hope that visitors will see how even today there remains a role for the royal portrait that underlines the monarch’s dedication, reminds us of tradition and emphasises continuity.”

Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits was due to open on April 3 at the National Maritime Museum, Park Row, Greenwich Peninsula, London SE10 9NF. It has now been postponed until further notice. Admission: £9-£10.80 adults/£4.50-£5.40 children. www.rmg.co.uk www.weekender.co.uk

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Greenwich mindfulness instructor Kelly Robson teaches children and adults to savour the present moment.

Right now, living through these unprecedented times with many elements of our lives feeling out of control, is the ideal time to take up a meditation practice.

Can anyone, at any age, start meditating? What’s a good way to start?

I believe that barring serious mental illness anyone can benefit from meditation, but no one should be compelled; it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. It’s very simple in theory, but difficult to get a handle on in practice. Most people find that their minds are very busy, so as they begin to meditate thoughts start streaming in: ‘I’m too busy for this, it’s boring, I can’t sit still, I’m not doing it right,

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it’s not for me, my foot is itchy, I should be doing something else, what’s wrong with me? What’s for lunch?’ The instruction is simply to watch these thoughts raining down and ‘stand behind the waterfall’.

Choose something to focus on, like the breath in the belly or the nose, or the sensations of the body as you sit, walk or do yoga and stay with it for a period of time, maybe 10 or 20 minutes. Each time the mind wanders or you get caught up in thinking, gently come back to your object of focus, without judgement or self-criticism.

What are the main benefits of mindfulness and meditation? What would you say to people who don’t get it, or understand the point of meditating?

There are loads of benefits from meditation! Someone described it beautifully by saying it’s like putting shock absorbers on a rickety car. You begin to be less stressed about the pressures of everyday

life, you begin to detach yourself from the running commentary about the past and the future (rumination), you begin to see your unhelpful and automatic patterns of thought, your concentration strengthens so that decisions can be made from clear thinking rather than impulse, and so on.

The main benefit to me, and one of the reasons teaching is such a joy, is when the realisation dawns that you can look after yourself as kindly as you do your friends and your children. Most of us judge ourselves pretty harshly.

Meditation can also allow us to live more comfortably with pain: the arthritis in my hands is still painful but it doesn’t bother me as much as it used to.

To those who don’t get it, I’d say just give it a go and see what happens.

There are a lot of resources out there now, like the Headspace and Buddhify apps, books like Finding Peace in a Frantic World (with

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guided meditations included) by Professor Mark Williams and Danny Penman, and websites like www. bemindful.co.ukand Breathworks.

Where do you teach?

I’ve been teaching in Greenwich and Central London for about six years.

I teach an eight-week mindfulness course to adults each term at Mycenae House, plus one-to-one sessions with private clients, corporate wellness, university staff and academics, and for five years I’ve even provided mindfulness taster sessions at a summer festival in Grosvenor Square. I guide meditation practice retreats and monthly drop-in practice evenings; plus, of course, my work with students and teachers at schools.

My studies have been ongoing with the Bangor University Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, part of the university’s School of Psychology, and I work under supervision of one of its faculty members. www.weekender.co.uk

health How do you teach mindfulness to kids?

I come into schools to teach afterschool clubs, assemblies, wellness days, and so on. My favourite group to teach is Years 5 and 6 (ages 9 and 10). They see the usefulness of mindfulness practice, as they face so much pressure from exams, sports, music and drama performance, changing bodies and strong emotions, peer pressure, etc, etc, etc. Teachers also find that they benefit from learning mindfulness and establishing a meditation practice. I’m qualified to teach the children’s curricula developed by the Mindfulness in Schools Project for primary and secondary students, and teachers.

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How long have you been meditating?

I’ve meditated on and off (mostly off) since university (a long time ago) with a vague feeling it was good for me. When I was made redundant from my publishing job in 2011, a friend suggested doing an eight-week mindfulness course as a participant and it resonated so strongly that I decided to make it a large part of my life. I’ve been studying, training and teaching ever since.

For more information on Kelly’s meditation courses, email kellyrobson@btinternet.com

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Excavating the pinner’s bones up towards the Crown & Sceptre Mary Mills From the junction with Eastney Street the riverside path which was Crane Street continues eastwards as High Bridge.

This article will look at the path once the draw dock is passed.

Until recently, like Crane Street, Highbridge contained a mixture of pubs and small scale industrial buildings – most of them offices and workshops for river based activities.

It ends with the almshouses known as Trinity Hospital said to be the oldest buildings in Greenwich. It is probable that when the Court was held at Greenwich palace this area was one where career courtiers, diplomats and administrators had their expensive, riverside houses.

It has been speculated that ‘High Bridge’ as a name refers to a landing

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place or a ‘bridge’. The word ‘Bridge’ was once used to describe a structure which we would call a ‘pier’ or a ‘jetty’. There is apparently a reference to a ‘Court Bridge’ being destroyed in the middle ages, probably on Crowley’s Wharf. ‘High Bridge’ is thus the road which went to this structure.

It is also sometimes far from clear what the actual road name is, or was. Some buildings are given with an address sometimes in Crane Street and at other times in High Bridge. We are however passing the draw dock at the bottom of Eastney Street and continuing eastwards between modern housing and old wharf offices.

The first buildings past the draw dock today are wharf side offices, but until the 1940s this was the site of the Three Crowns Pub, originally www.weekender.co.uk

called High Bridge Place. This was a weather boarded building with big bay windows on two floors overlooking the river. It dated from at least 1800 and was demolished in 1932. It was at one time used as the Harbour Masters Office – I wrote an article about this, published in Weekender in May 2018. It may have been used by the Harbour Master from as early as the 1790s and closed when the Harbour Masters House on Ballast Quay was built in the 1850s. I suppose it was acceptable to have a joint operation between a river regulatory body and a pub – the Georgians, after all, had a fairly relaxed attitude towards drink.

The buildings now on site, numbered 1-3, date from the 1930s or 1940s and have housed a series of river related offices. In the 1950s occupants were tug owners, Alpha Towage, and their name still appears on the river facing frontage to the building, although it is now used by light industry. Alpha Towage appears to

have gone into administration in 1973, but a company of that name is still active at Brake in Germany.

On the other side of the road are new houses and a gym for the rowing club. They were built on an area called Creedy’s Yard - I would be interested to know who Creedy was if anyone has any information.

Before the houses were built the archaeologists were on site and came up with a hitherto unguessed at riverside industry in an area thought to have been used in the late 16th and early 17thcenturies.

“Excavation .. identified evidence for pin making in this area ... both sharpened and unsharpened pins and pinner’s bones. ....... the pin blanks are likely to have been made locally”.

The explain that “Pinner’s bones are animal bones... modified to hold copper alloy pins ..... while the points were filed during manufacture “.

Further on along the riverside at 11-15 are more buildings from the

1940s ad 1950s They were used

by Griffith’s who were a lighterage firm and Donovan’s who were barge repairers., who may still own them.

They are now let to small businesses and charities. I can recall meetings of an environmental charity in one of these unprepossessing buildings and being amazed and the standard of comfort (lots of chocolate biscuits too) and the amazing river views from picture windows. It is understood that a planning application is currently extant to build flats here 11-15 are the last buildings before the path eventually widens out to an area of planting outside Trinity College.

They appear to be on the site of the Crown and Sceptre pub, which was another weather boarded building with bow windows overlooking the river.

Rather larger than the other pubs it had a second story level bridge which crossed Highbridge and ran towards another pub called the Crown and Sceptre Tap. Continued overleaf

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History crown and sceptre highbridge

“Excavation... identified evidence for pin making in this area... both sharpened and unsharpened pins and pinner’s bones - the pin blanks are likely to have been made locally”.

It might be of interest that of these riverside pubs the Crown and Sceptre along with the Trafalgar and the Ship are listed in Pigot’s 1836 Directory under ‘Inns and Hotels’ while the Yacht and the Three Crowns –plus The Union (now the Cutty Sark) are listed as ‘Public houses’. Crown and Sceptre appears to have been particularly upmarket in that its managers were Quartermaine and Lovegrove who provided catering services to several establishments in central London = and who could advertise their whitebait as being of superior

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high bridge towards crane street

On maps and drawings of the early 20th century a ramp is shown going down from the Crown and Sceptre to the river and a mooring in front of the wall and I wonder if this is the equally elusive ‘Sand wharf’. Please let me know.

quality and the pub is described as ‘gastronomically celebrated’.

The Crown and Sceptre eventually became the Conservative Club. The club had held its inaugural meeting there in 1882 and eventually took it over. On maps from the early 20th century the riverside buildings here are shown as ‘Conservative Club’ rather than ‘Crown and Sceptre’.

The building was eventually demolished in the 1930s.

We emerge from the narrow part

to find out what the circumstances were around the building of the wall here, or indeed about the the plaque – would be interested in any information. The 1928 flood is well recorded and followed both a storm surge upriver and melt water from snow coming down. Flooding was, and is, a perennial problem and although the age of the river wall and its origins are unclear there are records of repairs following floods in this area from the 1330s.

It may be relevant that a planning application to rebuild this stretch of wall was submitted in 2018.

of high bridge to an area in front of Trinity Hospital. The Hospital is said to be the oldest building in Greenwich, but as an almshouse it has no place in this article which is supposed to be about riverside industry (counting pubs as part of the entertainment industry!). The river wall in front of the pub is relevant

and interesting, clearly rebuilt and with plaques which say ‘This wall was erected - and the piles fixed - Anno Domini 1817 - William Smith, Warden.

Variable high tides - March 30th 1874 - Joseph Giles, Warden. Extraordinary high tide - January 7th 1928 - when 75ft of this wall were demolished Leonard Collyer, Warden. I am unable

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A report on the archaeological dig in High Bridge with much more detail is in Nicholas Cooke and Christopher Philpott’s Excavations a Creeds Yard London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Transactions Vol.53 Web page on the 1928 flood https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/1928_Thames_flood Pictures of Trinity Almshouse Stairs https://www.flickr.com/ photos/thamesdiscovery/ sets/72157711640467778/ www.weekender.co.uk

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“You have really given me hope” CACT helps Greenwich residents during COVID-19 pandemic

Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) is offering shopping and pharmacy trips to vulnerable Royal Borough of Greenwich residents and a dedicated telephone friendship line following the Coronavirus pandemic.

Although a number of programmes have been postponed due to the virus, staff are finding ways to support a range of participants across the community.

Residents who are feeling socially isolated, or who want a friendly chat with an advisor, are encouraged to call the Live Well Connect Line on 0800 470 4831.

Other programmes are also being adapted during this period.

Deb Browne, CACT’s Head of Health Improvement, said:

Football & Sports Development provision comprises an increased number of education and sports-based online challenges for pupils to do from home.

“It’s important to make staff available to go and make contact-free deliveries for them. I am redirecting core members of staff to linking the Live Well Line with the community offer.

CACT’s mentoring programme has also gone mobile; whilst mentors are currently unable to meet up with their mentees in person, they are organising sessions over the phone to provide support.

Additionally, CACT is using existing relationships with pharmacies to support residents by picking up prescriptions for those who are vulnerable or self-isolating.

“We hope that linking support in the voluntary sector with the infrastructure for social prescribing can help provide meaningful levels of support at this difficult time.”

The counselling service delivered by CACT on behalf of the Royal Borough of Greenwich is becoming online and telephone-based as well.

And staff have also been grocery shopping and to food banks on behalf

One participant who received a phone call through Live Well Connect said:

CACT’s Health Improvement department has launched the Live Well Connect telephone service, offering regular support to those in self-isolation.

This provides a listening ear and a friendly voice to help reduce social isolation, which has long been a focus of several of CACT’s programmes.

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public notices ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) [Anchor and Hope Lane] PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)

1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to makes this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic

Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out a Frame and Cover replacement.

2. The Order will come into operation on 12th April 2020 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take 2 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.

3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from proceeding left into Anchor and Hope Lane from Woolwich Road (Eastbound).

4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via Woolwich Road (Eastbound), U-Turn at the roundabout with Gallon Close, Woolwich Road (Westbound) and Right into Anchor and Hope Lane. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.

5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.

6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.

7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.

Assistant Director, Strategic Transportation The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ

ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) Erindale PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)

1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich makes this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out manhole works.

2. The Order will come into operation on 30th March 2020 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take 1 day. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.

3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in, Erindale at the junction of Macoma Road.

4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via Macoma Road, Macoma Terrace, Plumstead Common Road, Garland Road, Pendrell Street and vice versa.. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be

maintained wherever possible.

5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.

6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.

7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.

Assistant Director, Strategic Transportation The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ Dated 20th March 2020 (INTERNAL REF: PL/206/LA384442)

Dated 27th March 2020 (INTERNAL REF: PL/TBC/LA385351)

ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) GREENING STREET, SE2 PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)

1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich makes this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out service pipe repairs.

2. The Order will come into operation on 13th April 2020 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 5 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.

3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) outside 25 4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via McLeod Road, Congress Road, Abbey Wood Road and vice versa.

Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.

5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.

6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.

7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.

Assistant Director, Strategic Transportation The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ

Town and Country Planning ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 – SECTION 247 PROPOSED STOPPING UP OF THE HIGHWAY – HENLEY CROSS, KIDBROOKE

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make an Order under section 247 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, entitled the Royal Borough of Greenwich (Stopping Up of Highways) (No. *) (Henley Cross, Kidbrooke) Order 2020.

2. The general effect of the Order would be to authorise the stopping up of Henley Cross from its junction its Kidbrooke Park Road for its full length in order to accommodate construction works for redevelopment of the area and realignment of the highway. The term “stopping-up” means that this area of highway would cease to be public highway.

[Note: The bus-interchange facilities will be re-provided as part of this development].

3. If the Order is made, the stopping-up would only be authorised in order to enable the provision of the development referred to in paragraph (2) above to be carried out in accordance with the planning permission granted to Kidbrooke Partnership LLP on the 31st October 2019 (the planning application reference is 18/4187/F).

4. A copy of the proposed Order and other documents, including maps, giving more detailed particulars of the Order are available for inspection during normal office hours until the end of six weeks from the date on which the Order is made or, as the case may be, the Council decides not to make the Order, at the Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise and Skills, Strategic

Transportation, Royal Borough of Greenwich, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ. 5. Any person who wishes to object to or make other representations about the proposed Order should send a statement in writing by the 29th April 2020, specifying the grounds on which any objection is made, to the Traffic Team, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ, or by email to Traffic.Team@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference 03-20 Henley Cross) 6. Persons objecting to the proposed Order should be aware that in view of the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, this Council would be legally obliged to make any comments received in response to this notice, open to public inspection.

Assistant Director, Strategic Transportation The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ

Dated 16/03/2020 (INTERNAL REF: PL/211/LA382284)

Dated 1st April 2020

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